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For all the years of its existence in Russia, Linkedin did not reach a higher popularity than famous Russian job portals like Headhunter, Superjob, Rabota.ru, and others. However, it still has a large professional audience in Russia. First, it provided a better alternative to a physical address book, to keep track of your most valuable […]

The Russian Ministry of Labor and Social Protection named the most highly paying jobs in Russia as of the first half of 2017. According to the data from vacancies the top 3 positions are taken by Ship Captain (with a monthly salary of 500,000 RUB , or about $8,500), Aircraft Commander (320,000 RUB, or about […]

No matter how much the media tries to persuade us, robotization cannot lead to mass unemployment. Automation takes time and considerable expense, and artificial intelligence itself has much to learn from people. Moreover, history shows that technologies, that caused certain professions to disappear, has also helped create new jobs. We discussed this last time. Nevertheless, […]

Have you noticed that today there are more and more media headlines about the robots and full automation taking our jobs in almost every field and industry? If we take it for granted, the areas in which our company operates are also at risk. We decided to find out how bad it actually is and […]

Following our latest blog entry Most Extraordinary Job Search Tactics let’s now focus on the most popular job hunting method: resume application. However, the candidates we would like to tell you about didn’t just send recruiters a typical-format CV on a white sheet of paper but went far beyond than that to seize employer’s attention. […]

In our previous article we spoke about Most Creative Recruitment Campaigns companies all over the world can use to find best talent. But what about job seekers? High competition in today’s job market makes it hard to stand out from the crowd that is why some candidates try rather extraordinary tactics to get noticed and […]

To find the best candidates, employers sometimes use rather original approaches to the process of finding and attracting new employees, especially when it comes to representatives of highly qualified professions. In this article we want to talk about what we consider the most unusual methods of recruitment, which differentiate Google, Yandex, Volkswagen, IKEA and other […]

In September, experts of the service Yandex.Rabota published a study that showed the most popular professions in Moscow and St. Petersburg, allocating them by metro stations on the basis of data from vacancies. For greater objectivity of the research job recruitment agencies were excluded. As a result, the sample of researchers included more than 100,000 […]

Russian Unemployment with 5.3% in July nears Historic Lows despite Sanctions The unemployment rate in Russia dropped in July to 5.3%, not far from the record low of 4.8% a year ago. Notably the number of the economically active population (those working or looking for a job) simultaneously grew from 76.5 to 77.2 million. This […]